Course Club Week 4 - UX as Core to Product Delivery

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📆 Course Club – Week 4: UX as Core to Product Delivery
Hey everyone!

Join us for Week 4 of our Portland IxDF Course Club as we continue the UX Management: Strategy & Tactics course. This week’s theme is UX as Core to Product Delivery, and we’ll be digging into Agile, Lean UX, MVPs, evidence-based design, and what it takes to truly embed UX into product development.

đź—“ Date: Monday, May 5
🕖 Time: 7:00–8:00 PM PST
📍 Location: https://meet.google.com/oer-feqj-ecm
💬 Icebreaker: “What’s one thing that’s helped you work better with product or engineering?”

Agenda Highlights:
– How UX fits into Agile and Lean delivery models
– What “viable” really means in MVP
– Best practices and challenges in Agile UX
– Lessons from cross-functional collaboration
– Evangelizing Lean UX and influencing process
– Using data, validation, and personas to build better products

Discussion prompts:

  • What does it take for UX to have a meaningful seat at the delivery table?

  • How can we ensure MVPs are actually usable, not just shippable?

  • What role should UX play in a data- and metric-driven culture?

Looking forward to another thoughtful and honest conversation. Whether you’ve done the section or not — come join the conversation :)

See you Monday

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